Bah - I should have mentioned in my comment regarding searching CPAN for an author's contributions, to also search for their full name too, as some people will credit authors by their PAUSE ID, and some by name. Thankfully, it's easy enough to do both at the same time, e.g. http://grep.cpan.me/?q=David+Precious|bigpresh

So in the past I mentioned that our community should do a better job of reaching out to recruiters. I got a lot of great comments (summarized here) on that, and as a result have written a first draft document, which I'd like to share. Its on Google Docs over here, (public link). If anyone wan...

I somewhat wonder whether this document should be developed on GitHub (perhaps via GitHub pages) so interested parties can easily fork it and submit pull requests without having to ask for access first.

So in the past I mentioned that our community should do a better job of reaching out to recruiters. I got a lot of great comments (summarized here) on that, and as a result have written a first draft document, which I'd like to share. Its on Google Docs over here, (public link). If anyone wan...

@kd's point is valid - but if you know the username someone tends to use for CPAN, you can always drop it into http://grep.cpan.me/ or similar to look for mentions of their contributions in CHANGES files - for e.g. http://grep.cpan.me/?q=BIGPRESH

So in the past I mentioned that our community should do a better job of reaching out to recruiters. I got a lot of great comments (summarized here) on that, and as a result have written a first draft document, which I'd like to share. Its on Google Docs over here, (public link). If anyone wan...

You may have noticed that some perl.org services (including www.perl.org) were unavailable for a short time this afternoon. For the past few days we've had issues in the middle of the night where one of our primary servers would grind to a halt. We believe we've isolated that to a bad disk, an...